We deal with a suitable weak solution to the Navier-Stokes equations in a domain . We refine the criterion for the local regularity of this solution at the point , which uses the -norm of and the -norm of in a shrinking backward parabolic neighbourhood of . The refinement consists in the fact that only the values of , respectively , in the exterior of a space-time paraboloid with vertex at , respectively in a ”small” subset of this exterior, are considered. The consequence is that...